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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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I really thought I left the perpetually 14 Edgelord Atheists behind when I left Reddit
I'm sorry. I don't think this is a "Reddit thing". I've been here longer than I've been on Reddit. I agree that we have the same dynamics here, that people often are incentivized to reply with negative comments. But this is a community with "Humor" in the name. And edgy humor is part of the discussion. And where I'm from, being an atheist is fairly common. I still think if you were able to tell facts from fiction, you wouldn't be religious in the first place and mixing both terms in one sentence is kind of an oxymoron. So I think it's more that both the audience on Reddit and on Lemmy is quite diverse. And we both have different perspectives on life, probably also are part of different cultures and maybe have a different take on humor and which things to scroll past and which things to reply to.
I'm seeing the edgy, but not the humor.
"ReLIEgion bad, upvotes to the left" isn't funny, it's just annoying
That is a reddit mindset. I don't think it works that way here. Comments usually get only a few votes on Lemmy and I don't think many people chose this platform for the upvotes. That specific post got 0 upvotes and 1 downvote (given my instance fixed federation and the numbers are correct now.) I don't want to get on your nerves too much. Just explain my perspective. Religious people are super loud. They want to dictate how I live, if I can marry someone if I'm gay, oppress women, oppress minorities and they wage war all around the world. Have done so for centuries, and continue to do so. I feel entitled to call out their BS as long as they try to make everyone's life worse. I promise to stop in the exact moment they refrain from politics, violence and stop telling me and my surroundings how to live our lives. You can't just do all of that and then expect the other side to stay silent.